chapter 14

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Soon, the whole family went to the pageant. Chelsea was as proud as she could be of Kevin. Buzz was in the pageant too, but Kevin seemed to be more of the focus, then again, he did have the solo in the song. The brothers sang along with the choir of their Christmas Tree song while the school's music teacher accompanied them by piano. Everything was going well so far and the song was flowing with ease. Chelsea looked excited for Kevin. William was drinking his bottle.

Kate smiled. Frank was sleeping. The relatives passed along to each other that it was time for Kevin's solo. Leslie tried to wake her husband to spread the news while the other students were quieting down their parts of the song. Frank woke up. Chelsea smiled wider and had the proudest smile in the room. William was just drinking right then. Kevin took a small breath, then started to sing the song the best that he could.

Buzz decided to be a jerk and used his candle and another boy's candle around Kevin's ears to make it appear that they were glowing. For some reason, the audience found this funny. Kevin was always taught to tune out the audience when on stage, so he did, and he was unaware of Buzz's little prank. Chelsea looked both annoyed and worried. Uncle Frank was laughing too.

Kate wasn't laughing, shaking her head. William didn't know what was happening, and because almost everyone else was laughing and it was infectious to him, he laughed too. Buzz then used the candlesticks as sticks and Kevin's head as a drum while the audience laughed at the little joke. Leslie was trying to make her husband and children stop, but the laughter seemed to flood the room. Kevin felt something was wrong as he sang his solo, he turned around to see Buzz, knowing he had something to do with his humiliation, so he punched his older brother, shocking everyone as the set was now coming apart.

Chelsea looked proud of Kevin. William stopped laughing but clapped then. Kate looked disappointed as the children fell and the piano player fell too. Kevin didn't mean to cause a lot of destruction and chaos, but he had to punish Buzz to make him pay for the consequences of his actions.

The other choir members fell off their platform and now the crowd looked horrified. Chelsea was the only one who looked proud of Kevin, other than William who was giggling at the chaos. Kate shook her head. Peter stood with Kate as Kevin felt very much in trouble and the curtains closed on the choir, possibly leaving the rest of the pageant cancelled because of tonight's shenanigans.

Soon they were back at home, holding a family meeting. Chelsea had put William to bed and was taking Kevin's side.

Buzz tried to look very serious and mature about this whole thing. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury... I'd like to apologize to my family for whatever displeasure I might have caused you..."

"What?" Kevin glanced at his brother in disbelief, but he wasn't very vocal about it, so no one really heard him.

"My prank was immature and ill-timed." Buzz continued, sounding like the polar opposite of himself.

Chelsea shook her head at Buzz, her arm around Kevin. Kate looked approving at Buzz. Fuller hid a small chuckle as he remembered it and found it hilarious.

"I'd also like to apologize to my brother," Buzz said then, then turned to the youngest of his siblings. "Kevin... I'm sorry, I know Chelsea forgives you, but I'm sorry."

Kevin still glared to him and kept closer to Chelsea, she seemed to be the only one with a brain left in this household.

"You are the one who did something wrong." Chelsea mutters to Buzz.

"Thank you, Buzz... Kevin, do you have anything you want to say?" Kate asks, shooting a glare at Chelsea.

Kevin looked angry with the others as they praised Buzz like this was really all his fault when all he did was fight back.

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